Consider the challenges faced by the early Americans trying to get their first Thanksgiving meal on the table: Outsmart the wild turkeys, clean the codfish, grind the grain into meal, gather the corn and be grateful that Native American chief Massasoit and his 90 men contributed five deer to the feast. (Today, a nice bottle of wine or homemade pie would be considered sufficient.)
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Howard Cohen works it out for you
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